answer:The more they let me choose my curriculum, the better I was. I hated middle school. I was a good kid in grade school and a shined in HS. When I got to college, there were too many options given school and social. School wise, on the one hand, I aced my senior level Shakespeare course without reading a single Shakespeare play, on the other I dropped out because I could not ‘get’ foreign language. I guess, after all this time, my answer would be, “the only person that can derail you is you. I have no regrets and I’d not be me if I’d done things differently. You need to find comfort in your own skin.